Balls by Egantx7

Champion(s):

UllspergerA


Runner(s)-Up:

WangS


Quiz Description

12 questions on the theme of .. uh ... er .... let's just say the word "Ball(s)" do not need to appear in every answer.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 24 54 68 88 53 50 65 28 05 59 48 07
1 UllspergerA 1479 99 125
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2 WangS 1421 97 00
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3 HessJa 1409 96 125
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4 McGeeDean 1393 94 125
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5 GoodmanDL 1386 93 125
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6 Sharpj 1359 91 125
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7 KroegerJ 1349 90 125
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8 KaufmanK 1333 88 125
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9 WeikleB 1317 86 125
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10 AdamKing 1300 85 125
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11 LuskT 1287 83 125
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12 SteevesR 1280 82 125
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13 MillerC37 1269 80 125
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13 VenguswamyK 1269 80 125
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15 HightB 1266 77 125
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16 LiptonM 1264 76 125
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17 LaskerJ 1222 74 125
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18 MeyerS 1221 73 125
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19 ChrisRosenberg 1212 71 125
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20 SchroederS 1207 70 125
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21 WilliamsK 1196 68 00
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22 MyrowitzJ 1191 66 00
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23 letouj 1184 65 125
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24 GrahamJ 1169 63 125
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25 AmmermanA 1146 62 125
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26 OBrienJ 1109 60 125
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27 IrwinK 1096 59 125
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28 DoyleE 1093 57 125
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29 RobinJRichards 1084 56 125
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30 KleinJ 1080 54 125
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31 Steve 1041 53 125
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32 HerzogA 1022 51 00
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33 DixonD 1007 50 125
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34 HallR 993 48 125
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35 jefe 977 46 00
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36 randalleng 933 45 125
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37 MatherV 931 43 125
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38 BradburnA 904 42 125
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39 v0max 894 40 125
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40 GhostsDaddy 890 39 125
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41 Bix32 876 37 00
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42 Warek 869 36 125
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43 chc 822 34 125
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44 HensleyB 808 33 00
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45 petkunm 765 31 125
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46 FrostL 763 30 00
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47 BoyerA 754 28 125
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48 YangP 741 26 00
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49 ElendilPickle 734 25 125
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50 KulkarniM 719 23 00
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51 cruzich 718 22 125
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52 Vintsanity 709 20 125
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53 PopielinskiL 689 19 125
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57 lorijane 564 12 125
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57 AllardM 564 12 125
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59 JonesRW 535 10 00
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60 JVZ 497 8 125
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61 mellyjo 446 6 00
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62 BoulierJ 434 5 125
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63 RonningD 415 3 00
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64 KnowlesJ 411 2 125
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65 WeinbergJ 153 1 00
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Questions:

What was invented by Norman Stingley in 1965, and had sold over six million of them in their first ten years of availability. This novelty is made of a material called zectron, which is largely vulcanized polybutadiene, a material with a large coefficient of restitution.

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Super Ball

When Rosalyn once asked the inventor of this game why they had to wear masks, she was told that no one questions the masks. Time fracture wickets are used in this game. Rosalyn once figured out this game's philosophy by "stumbling into the perimeter of wisdom". Identify this fictional game first introduced in print around 1990.

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Calvinball

The first "Bucky Balls" or molecules of "Buckminsterfullerne" were discovered at Rice University in 1985. How many atoms of carbon were in that first Bucky ball?

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60

This game was allegedly invented in Chicago by some men who had gathered at a boat club to await the results of the annual Yale-Harvard football game. This oldest version of the game was later usurped by a bastardized version of the game invented in Minnesota that is now the international standard. Originally played indoors during the winter, identify this sport played internationally today with a round ball just under 4 inches in diameter.

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Softball

Which infamous film character said, in a 1983 film:

I never f*@&ed anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one.

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Tony Montana (Al Pacino in Scarface)

One of the more financially successful alumni of Ball State is John Schnatter. With what company is Schnatter most associated with as its founder, CEO, and spokesperson.

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Papa John's Pizza

Name any two of the four players in Major League Baseball history to have reached base-on-balls over 2000 times in their career (three of the four are in the Hall of Fame).

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Barry Bonds, Rickey Henderson, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams

Noted televangelist Jimmy Swaggert is a cousin of which legendary American music star? This star notably had another cousin whom he got in trouble with. In an 1989 biopic titlef for this singer's most famous hit, Alec Baldwin played Swaggert, and Dennis Quaid played this singer. Today, this man owns a "cafe and honky tonk" on Beale Street in Memphis.

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Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls of Fire)

In dancesport (competitive ballroom dancing), there are five ballroom dance styles listed under the "International Standard", according to the World Dance Council. Identify any one of the two ballroom dance styles that are classified as International Standard, which are also words used in the NATO phonetic alphabet

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Foxtrot or Tango

In which 2001 comedy will you find Cuba Gooding, Jr's character commandeering a bus filled with Lucille Ball impersonators trying to get to an I Love Lucy convention? This film also had a scene with Jon Lovitz and his family set at a Barbie Museum (not the Barbie you are likely thinking of).

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Rat Race

Which company manufactures the official balls used by the National Football League (and they have done this, more or less, since World War II).

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Wilson (Sporting Goods)

When Italy was united in the 1860s, this procedure, for musical purposes, was outlawed, and the Vatican began phasing out people subject to this procedure for musical purposes in 1878. John Henry and Funny Cide both were subject to this procedure, and Thomas Corbett, the man credited with killing John Wilkes Booth, notably did this to himself. Identify this procedure.

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Castration